What happens in the Data Center, ends up here.

Chris Knoch (@cknoch) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Big Squid (@Big_Squid) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about improving the signal to noise ratio on your data and how they’re impacting the world of predictive analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down predictive analytics for executive decision makers and what Big Squid is offering to help wrangle, munge, and otherwise visualize your data in meaningful ways. Whether you like it fried or grilled, make sure you get a taste of this giant calamari.

Brian Carmody (@initzero) CTO for Infinidat (@infinidat) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about seeing thru the fog and where long term technology trends are headed. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Infinidat intends to be the answer for yet unsolved storage problems, the real truth about random and sequential, Kryder’s law, and how disk drives continue to play an essential part in cloud storage. You may wanna lie down for this one, because we’re about to get all existential up in here about exabytes.

Justin Erenkrantz (@jerenkrantz) Head of Compute Architecture for Bloomberg (@TechAtBloomberg) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the delicate balancing act between developers and operations, and how to achieve the best velicoty, flexibility, and their desired outcomes. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how modular architectures and decoupling components benefits organizations, what permissionless development is all about, and so much more. Get your medium format camera out and take a picture, because there’s only one “day 1” in this game – and nobody needs pics of your infinite number of “day 2’s”!

This week we are joined by two guests from DataTorrent (@DataTorrent) – Guy Churchward (@GuyChurchward) President & CEO and Phu Hoang, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. They joined us on The Hot Aisle to talk about Real Time Streaming Platforms and analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how batch data processing is crossing over to real time processing, and how application and data architectures are enabling big data and analytics. Don’t forget: if your analytics moves slower than the business…you lose!

Josh Gwyther (@joshuagwyther) Google Cloud Platform Agent of Innovation for Google (@google) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about hyperscale public clouds and how GCP’s technology is keenly positioned to support their customer’s line of business applications. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the cost and opportunity cost of public cloud, the strategic initiatives Google Cloud Platforms is driving, and how data nerds and financial nerds alike are flocking to public clouds for these operational outcomes! Dust off your old Econ 101 book, because it’s about to get all OpEx up in here, up in here.

Paul Galjan (@PaulGaljan) Sr. Director, Microsoft Hybrid Cloud at Dell EMC (@DellEMC) joins us live on Day 4 of Dell EMC World in Las Vegas for an extra immersive recording The Hot Aisle to talk about the latest announcement around the partnership between Microsoft and Dell EMC for a turnkey delivery of Azure Stack and to explain the natural use cases and outcomes we can expect to see. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what Azure Stack is, why a Multi-Cloud approach is winning, and how Microsoft is tackling unique use cases like edge and even slow / disconnected private clouds. Get your pilot license because we are flying through the cloud and getting ready to jump, Red Bull style, setting all new knowledge records!!!

Stathy Touloumis (@stathyinc), Technology Director at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us live on The Hot Aisle during Day 3 of Dell EMC World 2017 to talk Mesosphere DC/OS, REX-Ray from {code} by Dell EMC (@codeDellEMC), and Dell EMC ScaleIO Ready Nodes as a reference architecture for your next generation data center. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the latest features of DC/OS 1.9, how customers are using DC/OS for IoT, and the partnership between Cloud Foundry and Mesosphere. We’ve been persistent in our pursuit of experts who expose that there are consistent use cases for persistence in the data center today.

John Bass (@JohnGBass) Founder & CEO at Hashed Health (@HashedHealth) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Blockchain in general and specifically how it applies in the healthcare world. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into the differences of Bitcoin, blockchain, hyper-ledger, and Etherium; why John believes the healthcare demands immutable transactions, and how consumers can become arbiters of their own data using blockchain. Join us on this step by step journey through the silk road for the right stuff.

Matt Mccormack Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer for Virtustream (@Virtustream) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to demystify the subject of Cloud Security and the constantly changing role of the Chief Information Security Officer. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) discuss best practices for a modern data center and how to leverage security as an evolving process – and not a product. We’d tell you more, but then we’d have to kill you. I love Keith Alexander. I’ve always respected Keith Alexander.

Ron Bianchini (@RonBianchini) CEO of Avere Systems (@AvereSystems) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about solving NAS problems at scale. There are architectural implications to the way modern applications and data centers are being deployed – and your critical infrastructure services need to keep up. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down new ways of looking at solving File / NAS problems, how scale and distribution of workloads impact application performance, and more.. I hope you brought an apple and a #2 pencil, because this professor’s about to go all 401 level on you!